THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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the first recorded from the Tertiaries of the United States, and, with the 
exception of some doubtful remains in the Connecticut Yalley red sand- 
stone, the first American species from any formation. 
SoLSKY, S. In A. Fedchenko’s Puteshestvie v Turkestan [Travels in 
Turkestan] ; Part 11, section ii. Zoogeographicheskia Izledovania. 
Division 5. Jestkokrilia {Coleoptera), fasc, 2, pp. 223-398, with 
table, pp. i.-xxiv. (all the families, and the genera to Stenus), pis. i. 
& iv. St. Petersburg & Moscow : 1876, 4to [Zool. Rec. xi. p. 250]. 
Comprises from the Histeridce to the Scarabcddce, inclusively. One new 
genus and many new species are described. The chief feature appears 
to be the number of new Dermestidce. This forms pt. 1 of vol. xxi. of 
Nachr. Ges. Mosc. 
Targioni-Tozzetti, a. Catalogo della Collezione di Insetti Italian! 
del R. Museo di Firenze. Firenze : 1876, 8vo. 
Refers to Carahidce. 
Uhagon, Serafin de. Coleopteros de Badajoz. Primera Parte. An. 
Soc. Esp. V. pp. 46-78, pi. i. 
Reaches to the end of the Scydmcenidcti. A new genus of IlydrophilidcB 
is characterized by Pandell^, and a few new species are described. 
Ulke, H. Report upon the collections of CoZeopfera made in portions 
of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, 
during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. Chapter ix. of 
Wheeler’s Rep. Geogr. Explor. W. of 100th Mer. v. Zoology (Wash- 
ington : 1875, 4to), pp. 809-827, pi. Ixi. 
389 species are enumerated, with locality, &c., of capture. Five new 
species are described. The Tenehrionidoi and Meloidce are very charac- 
teristic families in these desert regions. 
Waterhouse, C. O. New species of Coleoptera from the Island of 
Rodriguez, collected by the Naturalists accompanying the Transit 
of Yenus Expedition. Ann. N. H. (4) xviii. pp. 105-121. 
8 new genera, and 32 new species. 
Local Notices. 
Scotland. D. Sharp continues his list [Zool. Rec. xi. p. 250] ; Scot. 
Nat. ii. pp. 33-40, 85-88, 133-136, 183 & 184, 231 & 232, 277-280, 
321-328, 368-376 {Lathrohium to Cerylon). W. A. Forbes, tom. cit 
p. 316. G. C. Champion, Ent. M. M. xiii. p. 111. 
S. England. E. Saunders, Ent. M. M. xiii. p. 113. 
Isle of Man. E. Birchall, tom. cit. p. 65. 
Hamburg. On doubtful species ; H. Beuthin, Yerh. Yer. Hamb. 1873 
(1876), pp. 222-224. W. Koltze & G. Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. 1876, 
p. 184. 
Silesia. Additions to the beetle-fauna [Zool. Rec. xii. p. 275], raising 
it to 4159 ; K. Letzner, Z. E. Yer. schles. (n. f.) v. p. 20. 
Liegnitz. J. Gerhardt, Deutsche E. Z. 1876, pp. 170-173, 383. 
Thuringia. Kellner, tom. cit. p. 173. 
